Re: My comments on the XHTML 2 draft.

William F Hammond wrote:
> 
> Lachlan Cannon <luminosity@members.evolt.org> writes:
> 
> > Say it out loud. You don't (or I don't anyway) start saying a sentence
> > with emphasis, and then emphasise something inside that emphasis. An
> > emphasis should be a small point, not an entire sentence.
> 
> In certain typesetting situations one uses italic fonts for quoting a
> sentence or two.  Emphasized text within the quoted text needs to be
> so represented, and this is commonly done by using roman text within
> the italic text.  In a content markup this would be correctly modeled
> by <emph> within <emph>; 

With respect, no it would not : it would be correctly modelled by
<emph> within <quote> (or <quotation>, or <q>, or <blockquote> or
whatever).  You quite specifically say that the outer text is
a quotation : then it must be marked up as such, and <emph> not
abused simply because you hope it will lead to italics...

Philip Taylor, RHBNC